transsexual

transsexual

1. a person who permanently acts the part of and completely identifies with the opposite sex

2. a person who has undergone medical and surgical procedures to alter external sexual characteristics to those of the opposite sex

transsexual

a person who experiences a profound and constant dislocation between his or her physiological sex and his or her ascribed GENDER. Sometimes there is a desire to change physiological sex so that this comes into line with subjective feelings of gender identity The term ‘transsexual’ was introduced in 1953.

transsexual

[tran′sek·shə·wəl]

(psychology)

An individual whose chromosomes, gonads, and body habitus mark that individual as a member of one sex, but who feels psychically to be of the other sex, with an overwhelming desire for sex reassignment through surgical and hormonal intervention.

Gail Leondar-Wright, who ran panels on publicity and transexuality, wrote that a GLBT conference intending to attract young people should include "slam poetry, the 'zine scene, performance art, and lyric writing.

One evening, after several Mojitos, I found myself discussing (in my best French) the ins and outs of transexuality with Adam (who was a man with breasts and dressed as a woman) and his bi-sexual boyfriend Christian.

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